ITS Blog Why you need a strong password policy

Earlier this summer, dozens of parliamentarians' email accounts were targeted by an alleged state-sponsored cyber attack. Officials were forced to lock the affected users out of their own accounts to avoid potential blackmail attempts. The accounts targeted had something in common: they had weak passwords that did not meet Parliamentary Digital Service guidelines. This example, however, is only one of many. Verizon's "2017 Data Breach Investigations Report" attributed 81 perRead More →The post Why you need a strong password policy appeared first on ITS.